Beau Purvis is a well-traveled angler, a great photographer and a good buddy of Deneki Outdoors. Beau was kind enough to put together a post for us with three of his favorite angling photos and, most importantly, the back story for each. If you’d like to see more of Beau’s photos, you can check out…
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A Real Nice One
We’ve posted this picture on our blog before – on Thanksgiving of 2008. Since our blog’s readers on Thanksgiving of 2008 consisted of yours truly and my mom, we figured it was time to show it to all you folks! This exceptional resident rainbow came from the lower river at Alaska West a few years…
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Welcome to Our New Digs!
If you’re seeing this post, all of last night’s internet magic worked, and we’re up and running on our new site! Have a look around – we hope you like it. We’ve combined our blog with our old separate sites with information about our lodges. We hope this new format to be a lot more…
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Dolly Varden
A really fishy dude and a really chrome Dolly. Photo: Cameron Miller Besides the salmon and the leopard rainbows that we target at Alaska West, we have a whole lot of fun fishing for Dolly Varden. Dolly Varden and Arctic Char are really closely related in our part of Alaska. So closely related, in fact,…
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Dolly Varden
Dollies, no Char, no Dollies, no… Who cares! They are awesome! There is such a slight biological difference between the two that we call them all Dolly-char. That seems to appease the pundits on both sides of the argument… an argument that at times gets as heated as what’s the best fly pattern for ….(insert…
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Grayling
Known as the sailfish of the north, grayling are the most elegant and unusual of the trout species. Cousin to the whitefish, part char and part trout grayling have taken body art to ridiculous heights. From their sailfish-like dorsal fin with its red purple and orange spots to their gray black sides that flow with…
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Kanektok River Information
Alaska West operates a world-class fly fishing lodge located in the Togiak National Wildlife Refuge, 5 miles upriver from the Alaska Native village of Quinhagak, on the banks of the Kanektok River in far western Alaska along the coast of the Bering Sea. So where in the heck is that? Quinhagak is a coastal community…
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Dreaming Of The Dean – Part 1
Charles launches one on the Dean. Charles St. Pierre is a good friend of Deneki Outdoors. He’s not only one of our spey instructors during our king salmon season at Alaska West – he’s passionate about anadromous fish and the rivers they swim in, and he’s one of those guys who understands that fishing is…
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Chile West Destinations Part Four: Coyhaique
A nice rainbow from just outside Coyhaique Our fourth destination at Chile West is Coyhaique. At this point we’ve fished the waters around Palena, La Junta and Cisnes and we’re closing in on the end of our journey through Southern Chile. On the way to Coyhaique, we stop in the Manihuales area – part of…
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The Lower Dean River
Runs on the Lower Dean are big. Got a couple of hours? At BC West, we fish two sections of river during our steelhead season. They’re separated by the Dean River Canyon – that steep half-mile stretch of drops and small pools that has a lot to do with the strength, power and stamina of…
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